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JACOPO ROBUSTI, IL TINTORETTO (Venice 1519-1554)
- Portrait of a man, half-length, in a black coat

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JACOPO ROBUSTI, IL TINTORETTO (Venice 1519-1554)
Portrait of a man, half-length, in a black coat
Price Realized
(Set Currency)
  • $76,375
  • Price includes buyer's premium
Estimate
    $80,000 - $120,000

Sale Information

Sale 9662
OLD MASTER PAINTINGS
3 October 2001
New York, Rockefeller Plaza





Lot Description

JACOPO ROBUSTI, IL TINTORETTO (Venice 1519-1554)
Portrait of a man, half-length, in a black coat
oil on canvas
39 3/8 x 33½ in. (100 x 85 cm.)

Pre-Lot Text

PROPERTY FROM THE IAN WOODNER FAMILY COLLECTION*

Provenance

R. von Kaufmann, Berlin, 1889-1917.
M. de Rajzberg, Lausanne, 1917-1954.
Dulong de Rosnay, 1954-1964.
Ian Woodner, New York.

Literature

F. Harck, 'Quadri di maestri italiani in possesso di privati a Berlino', Archivio storico dell'Arte, II, p. 208.
R. Pallucchini, 'Cinque secoli di pittura veneta a Sciaffusa, ad Amsterdam ed a Bruxelles e tre secoli a Parigi', Arte Veneta, VII, 1953, p. 197, where dated to not later than 1560.
P. Rossi, Jacopo Tintoretto. I ritratti, Venice, 1974, pp. 44, 102, 116 and fig. 89.

Exhibited

Schaffausen, Amsterdam and Brussels, 500 Jahre venezianische Malerei (preface by G. Jedlicka), 1953, p. 39, no. 69a.

Lot Notes

After Titian, Jacopo Tintoretto was the most important portraitist working in Venice in the second half of the sixteenth century. Although his early portraits show the influence of Titian, they are nonetheless distinguished by a directness that came increasingly to characterize his works. This quality can be seen in the present portrait, which has been dated to no later than 1560 by Pallucchini (loc. cit.). The dark color of the sitter's jacket and the absence of any attributes add to the immediacy of the image and focus the viewer's attention directly on his face and hands. These features can also be found in other works dated to the same period by Rossi (op. cit., p. 44) such as Portrait of a man (Museo Cerralbo, Madrid) and Portrait of a young man (Galleria Doria Pamphily, Rome).